REPUBLICAN ADDRESS 



TO THE 



ELECTORS OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE, 



ON THE 



CHOICE OF ELECTORS 



OF 



PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT; 



*' IT is of infinite moment that fon 
''should properly estimate the im- 
*' mense value of your national union 

** indignantly frowning upon the 

*' first dawnlngs of evt-y attempt to 
*' alienate any portion of our country 
•' from the rest. It seems as matter 
*' of serious concern, that any ground 
** should be furnished for characteriz- 
** ing parties, as northern a^id totttkern^ 
*' where designing men may endea- 
•' vour to excite a belief that there is a 
*• real difference of local interests and 
" views. One of the expedients of 
** party, to acquire influence within 
*• particular districts, is to misrepresent 
'* the opinions and aims of other dis- 
** tricts.'* 

' IVjSHiNGTON*} Address. 



« DISGUISE it as you will, tht 
" manners, habits and interests of the 
*• southern and northern people are very 
♦* different — The southern States have 
** not only a different interest from the 
" northsruy but the former have privi- 
" leges that are denied to »/, and are 
"relieved from public burthens, vfhich 
*' Twi? are doomed to bear. The monies 
" collected at the post-oJace, are prin- 
" cipally from the nirthem and two of 
" the middle States, yet a very large 
" proportion of it is expended in trans- 
" porting the mail through the ioutkern 
" States." — cCi* Virginian influence di- 
rects every measure of government. — 
Every prominent man, who belongs to> 
the norths they arc sure to denounce. 
Virginia is almost wholly exempt from 
taxes, yet she is using the wliole weight 
of her influence to increase the duties 
on the commerce and navigation of the 
north. Imcartiaus, 



W A L P O L f , N. H. 
PRINTED. 

1804, 






REPUBLICAN ADDRESS, 

"fO THE ELECTORS OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE. 



2N REPLY TO IMPARTIALIS, 



1 HE man, who fpends his nights in plundering his 
neighbours, and his days in boafting of his wealth, may triumph 
for a feafon, but when the right owners, and the flieriff are in 
purfuit of him, his glory is at an end. Impartialis, the author 
of a late addrefs to you, has had his day of triumph ; he has 
robbed you of your votes, and your State is to be for two years 
more, reprefented by men, who hate a republican government, 
and who will employ all their time in Gongrefs to check its 
operations. But the right owners are now in purfuit after that 
^fame author, and they will rapidly follow him through all the 
labyrinths oiF his addrefs, and will not reft until they have 
drawn him before the public tribunal, to anfwer for the artifi- 
pes, by which he has injured you. 

We call ourfelves the right owners-, becaufe the State is repub- 
lican in her Legiflature, and becaufe the amendment of th; 
Conftitution has fecured to our country, republican magiftrat i 
and meafures ; and we call this an injury, becaufe by it we aivj 
deprived for two years of all weight in a government, the i>'i- 
miniftration of which has the approbation of more than three 
fourths of the eledors in the United States. 

It is probable, that at the election of Reprefentatives to Coa- 
grefs, you, the body of eledors, endeavoured to do what np- 
peared to you for the beft ; you have no intereft in deceivin-i; 
or in being deceived ; you r-efpeft your rights, yourfelves and, 
families, and whenever you fhall know the truth, the trulls, 
will make you free. 

In this confidence, we call your attention to the firft ppfitio^j 
of Impartialis— =viz. That his lift of candidates prefents the dii' 
ciples of Waftiington ; and that the oppofite lift prefents "fyr 
enemies of Wafhington. We fhall take no notice of the n;: 
filk and muflin, in which this writer wraps up all his new b<>; 

impoftures 



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impoflures, but fhall proceed to e:^imine whether there is an>f 
thing like truth in this defignation of the oppofite Hfts Jf 
candidates. 

Had Impartialis, when a clergyman^ pronounced from the defii, 
that it was tl federal voice which once faid, " let there be light 
and there was light,'* and X\v3X federalifm called all things out of 
nothing, he would have deferved fevere reproof from every 
man who believed in God. When, as a civilian, he exhibits 
our country as drawn from a ftate of confufion and difcredit, 
into a regular government by the power of Waihington, and 
a chofen band oifederalifii, he deferves fevere reproof from ev- 
ery man, who knows how our Conftitution cam^e into being. 
Wafhington did indeed command an army of brave men, many 
of whom tailed death for their country, and were in theirgraves, 
while he furvived to enjoy the gratitude and refped of his 
country. The Conftitution was the refult of an extended im- 
prellion of its necellity. Will it be pretended that the republican 
traits of that Conftitution were made by Alexander Hamilton, 
Wm. Samuel Johnfon, Governeur Morris, Jared Ingerfol, or 
fuch men ? You will more juftly afcribe them, to Benjamin 
Franklin, John Langdon, James ]\iadifon, Nicholas Gilman, and 
Abraham Baldwin. Prefident Wafliington ligned that inftru- 
ment, which guaranteed to every State in the Union a repub- 
lican form of government i he approved it as containing tli^e 
bf^ft fyftem which, in the conflict of opinions, could be obtain- 
ed, and which provided for amendments in a way perfeftly 
V^uarded and fafe. In his after life he proved himfelf an ardent 
re ' blican, as much as was poffible for a man, furrounded by 
uic idmirers of the Britiih conftitution, of the Britifti funding 
fvftjm, and of navies, armies, ftarap and land taxes, fedition 
' ;' alien acts, and of eternal debt. ' Wafliington was in- 
. ..Oi the firft of men, but he muft have been more than human, 
-, •"!■; I he have at all times reiifted the folicitations, the eloquence 
and he intrigues of the men in power about him. 

Fijfident Jefferfon, (then minifter in France) wrote a treatifc 
p' j.ivor of the Cortftitution, Aud advifed its adoption ; at the 
lime ftating certain amendments which he wiftied adopted, 
is was, in a good meafure, early gratified. This treatifc 
id in the Convention of Virginia, by t/je friends of the Con- 
ji'iiui ;:i — and its author was, on his return, appointed by Prefi- 
'l-'^ Vailii'ngtoD, Secretary of State, in which oliice he vindi- 
cated 



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(jatcd the rights of his country in a State Paper, dictated by the 
lame powerful talents which guided his pen in draughting our 
Declaration of Independence. 

Mr. Madifon, (the prefent Secretary of State) was a firm and 
ardent friend to the Conftitution, both in the General Con-vcu- 
tion aad in that of Virginia. 

The Secretaries of the Treafury, of War, and of the Navy, as 
well as the Attorney General, were all friends to the Coniiitu- 
tion, and gave it their ileady fupport in their fcveral Ipheres 
of aclipn. 

The Poft Mafter General was young at the time of the adop- 
tion of the Conftitution ; but in every part of his advancing 
life, he has been its inflexible advocate. 

At the head of the government, organized under this Con- 
ilitution, was placed Prelident Wafhington — not by the voice 
of a -party ^ but by the voice of all the people, from a perfuafion 
that he was more fit than any other for the place. Under him 
were formed the leading meafures, indifpenfible to public intercft, 
not by 2i party, but by the whole reprefentatiqn of tlic people. 

As Impartialis feems anxious to claim for federaliftsj the entire 
glory of the funding fyftem,we yield it to him without regret. 

Thofe, now ftyled republicans, were in favor of difcrim!natb":g 
between the foldier and the fpeculator. The foldier had earned. 
lof. in the pound— the fpeculator had not paid more than '\f. 
Of courfe the paper could have been called in at '}^f. and funded in 
favor of the fpeciilator, and new paper, to amount of the re- 
maining I'jf. could have been funded in favor of the poor^ 
plundered foldier ; but federalifm fought no fucii glorious juf- 
tice : it looked forward to a powerful monied ariftocracy of 
lenders, who would fupport the energetic meafures of govern- 
ment, in order to give permanence to its own funds : federal- 
ifm purfued the interefts of the few : the funding fyftem was 
eftablifhed, and thus a foundation was laid, not for the edifice 
of freedom, but for an edifice refembling that ftupendous fabric 
of human invention, the Britifii government. 

We yield to Impartialis the entire glory of the alie?i a)id 
/edition ads, of the Jianding army, of the J. '2" l5 Z. negoiiaHon, 
of the Jlamp and land tax, of the midnigif t judiciary, and all 
the mighty things, which he claims to have been done under 
his GREAT AND PATRIOTIC Adams, a man, who meant weii, 
but wh(xundertook tp raife energetic phnts in a country which 

would 



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would not bear them. The voice of our country has decided 
fo unequivocally on the demerit of thefe meafures, that we 
have no occafion to difcufs them. The edifice, attempted to 
be raifed on the funding fyftem, is fo far demolilhed, that 
fcarcely is one ftone left upon another ; but you ftill have a 
government, which, having largely diminiftied your burdens, 
has now largely increafed your bleffings. 

As to the mournful tale of Impartialis, about the high rank 
to which the federal adminiftration raifed our country, and 
about our charges of monarchifm on the two Prefidents, it js 
fuiEcient to reply, that Prelident Waihington's name, charader, 
and parting advice, have been more reipefted by republicans 
than by federalifts ; and that we are contented to leave the 
juftice of the charge againft Prefident Adams, to thofe who 
have read his Defence of the American Conftitutipns— ^to thofe 
who have read about his hole of nobles, and his well-born and 
bafe-born, and his encomiums on the Britifli government, and 
who have carefully reflected on the meafures of his adminif- 
tration. 

We are not left to believe that you, electors, wifh to fee a 
revival of any fet of meafures, perpetually increafing expence, 
and requiring a ftanding army, a fedition acl, and all the odious 
array of a reign of terror, to enforce them. If you do not wifli 
a return of thofe meafures, can you conliftently mourn over the 
fallen condition of their authors, or appoint men to reprefent 
you, who can live and breathe only in the atmofphere of arif- 
tocracy ? Even if you do wifh a return of thofe meafures, is it 
rational to oppofe this wifli, to the decided fentiraent of an im- 
menfe majority of your country, efpecially at a feafon, when 
thofe, who reprefent fuch wiflies, can do nothing in public but 
to link you lower in the fcale of the union ? If a man ftiould 
wifh ever fo ardently for a crop of corn, yet in autumn he 
would not fow, in winter he would reftrain his hand, he would 
wait until the feafon, when nature and the elements promifed 
their aid. 

If any of you, Electors, wiih for the return of a Standings 
Army, and of Stamp and Land taxes, it is now autumn with 
you, long years of winter are to fuc^ceed : you have little chance 
of living to a feafon, in which the people of our country fhall 
forget the principles of their revolution and the bleffings oi a 
republican adaiiniilration. Your felf-ftyled difciples of Wafh^ 

ington. 



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ihgtOn, can do no more for you at the feat of government for 
the enfuing two years, than to fit or ftand as monuments of the 
eafe,with which an honeft people maybe defrauded of their votes. 

It was not by pretending great refped for Wafliington, that 
Impartialis made fuch impreffion, for there is fcarcely an eledor, 
who has not witneffed in the federal papers and in his pamphlet 
a zeal to difcredit the motives and aims of other diftricls, efpecially 
of Virginia, a practice, on which Wafliington called on us indig- 
nantly to frown. 

It was not by complimenting the meafures of Mr. Adams' 
adminiftration that Impartialis made fuch impreffion, for nearly 
every elector is in heart and intereft oppofed to fuch meafures. 
— Thefe things might have aided impreffions on the minds of 
fome ; but his great ftrength of operation is laid out in accounts 
of the prefent adminiftration, the falfehoods of which are not 
chargeable on his ignorance, for he holds ajlation^ which enables 
him to difcern the truth. 

His firft charge is of an attempt by the prefent adminiftration, 
to introduce monarchal principles into the government. — To 
prove this he fpeaks of numerous and arbitrary removals from 
office, made by Mr. Jefferfon. On this head you will pleafe to 
notice that in a congreffional debate, while Mr. Adams was in 
office, it was contended by federal members, that no man 
ought to be appointed or employed by the Prefident, unlefs 
fuch man refpedcd the principles and meafures of the adminif- 
tration. On that occafion Mr. Hillhoufe, now the brother fen- 
ator of Impartialis, contended for the policy on the fame ground 
as a farmer employs no man under him, who is wholly oppofed 
to his ideas of agriculture.— Under Mr. Adams, the army and 
navy were officered hj federalijis—thc diplomatic and coliedion 
departments ^^rt federal, Contradors and all employee! bv gov- 
ernment were federal— ^nd in order to fortify the policy 
and prevent any fair experiment of a republican adminiftration, 
ami to fill every vacancy and crevice with federalifm, every 
office, which became vacant after it was known that Mr. Adams 
was not re-elecled, was filled up by him, and to crown the im- 
pofition and fairly to top off the chimney with fedtralifm, 2. 
batch of midnight judges was got up. After the law, eftablilh- 
ingthe new judiciary was pafled, it would not fuit the delicate 
leehngs oi federalijis to fufter the man, who was to adminifter 
the government, to appoint the judges. No— they muft be 

appointed 



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appointed by the man, whom the people had dedared wonld 
be ina few hours, unfit to manage the government ! For four 
years, repubhcans had been denounced and refufed all public 
confidence becaufe they did not refped the adminiftratiori. Now 
a republican Prefident. was to advance forward with a glorious? 
chance of a fair experiment, bound hand and foot, furrounded 
by men in office hoftile to his fyftem and wifliing to caft him in- 
to outer darknefs— and federalifm I'eady to charge him with 
arbitrary violence if he fhould dare to remove any of thefe 
ehofen people. 

Yet all thefe people, over whom he had the power of removal,- 
^had been appointed during the pkafure of the Prefident, and might 
be removed without any reafon affigned — and this mode of ap- 
pointment was exprefsly adopted in order to enable the Prefi- 
dent to have men under him, in whom he placed confidence. 
In common life we have no idea of claiming fervices from a man 
and of demanding that thofe whom he Ihall have under him 
fhall be his enemies, and fhall feek to give him every hindrance ; 
yet federalifls feem to have believed that federalifm even in its 
humbled flate, fhould prove a fhield to every officer, who had 
gained appointment under a former adminiflration. There was 
boundlefs bafenefs in the calculation, boundlefs weaknefs in the 
means attempted to fupport it, and boundlefs wickednefs in the 
malicious reflections, which followed the mofl obvious and ne- 
ceffary removals. 

In face of all thefe fads^ fo mild and tolerant has been Prefident 
Jefferfon, that jnorethan one half oi all the officers now in thefer- 
vice of the' United States, are on the federal fide. We hop^, 
that if this article of charge againfl the Prefident be revived,- 
Impartlalls may have the full benefit of his cafe by having to 
compla: Hi of a total removal of federalifls from all offices de- 
pendant on the pleafurc of the Prefident. 

The next charge is of an arbitrary removal from office, by 
the prefent adminiftration, of the midnight judges. It is true 
that Cajigrefs, not dependant on the authority of the adminiftra- 
tion but injuft conformity with public opinion, did remove i6 
judges, deemed by them unneceffary. Without adverting tO' 
the able and conclufive reafons on which this meafure was' 
founded in Congrefs, we merely remark that in cafe any falling- 
adminiftration fhall in future attempt to prop itfelf againft the 
rifms adminiftration by the creation of new courts, and by aa- 

unfeafonable 



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iinfcafpnabk and iridecotoufly hafty appointment of judges, it 
h to be hoped that the above removal may be made a precedent 
during all generations. 

The next charge is on the fubje<B: of the government of Lou- 
ifiana, from which Impartialis ailects to derive proof of the fno^ 
narchal principles of Mr. Jefferfon. The federaiiils declared in 
Congrefs that the acquifition of Nevi^-Orleans was worth the 
price of blood, but qur I^refident did not like Jianding armies : 
he negotiated for and bought Louiliana at a: lefs price than the 
land could now be fold for in market, and rn this purchafe he 
obtained the favored fpot of New-Orleans, and with it the un- 
interrupted navigation of the MiiTifippi forever. When the 
news of the acquifition was firfl received, no man could conjec- 
ture what courfe federal defperation could take. The i^deraiifts 
were confounded for the moment, but at length this defperation 
broke forth in the federal papers in furious philippics againft the 
Prefident and the country. What was before beautiful as Sha- 
ron was now a wilderncis, rich meadows were barren fand- 
lieaps. The fait mountain amufed them for a while, but they 
could make no imprefiion againft that nor the weilfeq/o?:cd mea- 
fures of the Prefident. At length, when in Congrefs the feriovis 
diiBculty arrived how the country, which was now incorporated 
with our own,fhould he temporarily governed, federalifls affumed 
all manner of forms in order to embarrafs the bulinefs. As the 
cafe v/as of neceiTity and not provided for, Conpefs, (not the ad- 
miniftration) defired that the officers fhould be appointed by the 
Prefident. Impartialis w^ell recolleds how hardly he and his 
brethren labored to prevent the people of Louiliana from hav- 
ing as much liberty, as was provided by Congrefs, and' what vaft 
exertions were made at the laft Congrefs fo to arrange the bufi- 
nefs as to difaffecl the Louifianians and to difconcert the Prefi- 
dent. Gladly would they make this glorious outlet of our in- 
duftry, for which they would have flied blood, a theatre of up- 
roar and a curfc to the country, and while all human wifdoin 
could not devife a better mode, under all circumftances, yet thefe 
federalifts would endeavor to perfaadeyou, the Elcftors of New- 
Hampfnire, that all was arbitrarj^and tyrannical in this procedure. 
Suppoiing we had fought |"oiv Ljiuifiana and gained poffeffion, 
how would federalifts have contrived a government for the con- 
quered country ? Suppoii^g ?}j^t Congrefs had admitted Louifia- 
Ba to be a ftate or ilates of .the Union, what uproar would Im-. 
B " '' partialis 



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partialiiJ ha"^e made about breach of Conftitufion ? With hir« 
nothing is right, becaufe nothing is planned or atchieved b) 
federaUfts. 

Impartialis next advances to the revenue concerns of oiaj 
£ountry, a'nd here as ufual he claims for federalifts all credi'i 
The prefent adminiilration, he h'/s; " have reaped, what th^h 
predeceffoirsyoz(L;f<^/* k Ts incredibly ftrange that federalifts, whc 
now embofom nearly all the enemies of our revolution and i\ 
the imported enemies of republican.^m-, fhould be the men wlitc 
redeemed us from Great Britain and who framed our ConftitU 
tion — It is indeed marvellous that federalifm fhould have inverit 
cd a fyftem of revenue, before unknown to this country, aiic 
fhould have operated this^ fyftem, fo- that all the good which w« 
now enjoy, at the end of nearly four years after their deceafe 
fhould be owing to them, and yet that thofe fads Ihould b( 
known only to Impartialis and a few federalifts at the northward 

The fad is that the fyftem of impoft, from which is our prin 
cipal revenue, was known to all the country. New-IIampiiiire 
MaiTachufetfts, Rhode-Ifland and the other States on the fea 
board, had praclifed on this fyftem. It was the very fyftt-n 
which Congrefej the next year after the peace, folicited of th( 
States the power to levy ; At its firft adoption under our gtnc 
ral Government, thofe, who are now the members of differen 
parties, all agreed to it. Mr. Jefferfon, then Secretary of State 
approved its adoption. Mr. Madifon, then a. member of Con 
grefs, was one of the committee which reported it, and he ftren 
uou'/ly fupported not only the fyftem, but the detail' of it ir 
Congrefs. So much iox federal contrivance about revenue.-- 
With thefc fi<5ls Impartiajis may again place the impoft as ; 
feather in the. cap of federalifm ; it needs ornaments, but trutl 
needs none. 

If the " impoft furnilhed" i permzinent revenue and produc 
tive" funds to difcharge the debt and fupport the govern 
ment," how arrives it that the federal party borrowed fevei 
millions 500,000 dollars at 8 pjir gent ? Why did they lev] 
a land-tax r The anfwer is eafy. Under the Adams adminiftra 
tion the annual expenceswercjiore than Three Millions bey one 
what they now are : In confequeh!^€* their excife, their ftamp tax 
their tax on fnuft, fugar and ^iUTiages'manufacsrured by our owi 
citizens, when added to the impo^Y ard the funds^derived fron 
the iale of public land-i, wire all Inf/tJ^cienf; and as it always hap 

pens- 



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ens with a prodigal, though refources are immenfe, they are 
lOt equal to the expenditures, fo federalifm had recouri'e to 
aifmg monies by a land tax and by loans at an exorbitant in- 
ereft : yet inftead of diminifhing, augmented the public debt. 

Under the prefent adminiftration of Mr. Jefferfon, not a dol- 
ir has been borrowed— the obHgations of government have all 
een complied with — THinrERN millions of the principal debt 
ave been paid — more than two millions due under Jay's treaty, 
ave been compenfated — Intereft on the deferred debt, amount-, 
[ig to 1 ,200,000 dollars has been difcharged- — (thefc two are 
dditional demands, which were never made on the Adams ad- 
liniftration) and the land tax, {lamp tax, fugar and fnufF tax, 
arriage tax and excife on diftilled fpirits, have all been repealed. 

The economy of the prefent adminiftration has faved and ap- 
lied TO THE PEOPLE OF New-Hampshire, in reduclion of ex- 
enditure and payment of national debp, more than one hunt 
RED and sEFENrr-FOUR THOUSAND DOLLARS bcyond what >AfOuld 
ave been izvcd under the Adams' adminiftration in the fame 
;rm, had they continued their fcale of coUe^iOns and ex- 
endipres. 

We have indeed reapedwhzt our predeceflbrsyo^c^^, but it ha* 
een to us a harveft of debts, which the prefent adminiftration 
as been, in the midft of every kind of federd abuf^ and mif- 
sprefentatipn, contriving to difcharge from a fund far lefs con* 
derable than the federahfts improved. 

The next fubject of clamor againft the adminiftration, feleclcd 
y Impartialis is, the laying of new taxes. The firft to which li^ 
efers, was " for protecting the commerce and feamen of the U- 
ited States againft the Barbary powers," and "vv^as to continue 
1 force only fo long as hoftilities between them and us fliOuld 
ontinue. A frigate, commanded by a federaliji, was captured 
»^ithout fault of any one, our feamen were in captivity, tl:c 
oice of the country demanded relief for them and this ad was 

afled without any collifion of party.- The other tax was for 

mpoling fpecific inftead of ad valorem duties in certain caies. 
This corredtion of the impoft fyftem had been long contemplated 
nd was delayed 'till now, merely for want of premifes, on which 
found theeftimates. The fame tax extended to the levying 
nd collefting of light money on foreign fliips and vcftei$,,.a 
[leafure loudly demanded by our federal merchants, as counter- 
ailing a like duty on our veftels at the ports of other nations^ 



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As Imparlialis advances, he weakens in Iiig attacks, and by 2li^ 
indifcriminate ftyle of abufe fliews that his objeft was not an 
impartiaj addrefs to the und^erftandings of the Electors. 

Impartialis next advances to abufe the government for the 
repeal of the internal taxes, a meafure loudly called for by the 
people of ail the States : fo loudly that the people of New- 
Ham pftiire would not again ride feveral miles for a ftamp, would 
no^^ again have their hoiifes apprized and their windows counted 
and pay a heavy tax on their lands and on the manufaftures of 
their own hands, for the mere pleafure of knowing that the 
people of Kentucky bear a limilar burden. 

"Would Impartialis allow that Portfmouth is the only part of 
Kcw-Hampfhire, which pays any part of the impoft ? Do not 
the confumcrs throughout the State pay it ? Why then will he 
pretend that the trealiiry receives from Kentucky only 1 222 dol- 
lars, "^i cents f Do not the people of Kentucky and Venpont, 
and of all the interior country pay their full proportion of the' 
revenue according to their confumption ? TJie pretence that a^ 
part of the internal taxes could be repealed and the reft retained 
is idle ; the objecl was to get rid of an army, of officers,' and the 
oxpence, which was enormous, even when the whole tax was in 
.cojleclion,an(i which would have been intolerable, had only a part 
' remained ; and' as to rcfufing to reduce the impoft on falt,brown 
fugar and molaffes, it is enough to fay that they are as they were 
under Mr. Adajns, when the people had to pay the internal taxes 
--that fait has alv/ays been confidered a fafe and proper objecl of 
revenue, it being difficult of removal from payment of duties, 
and an article of fmall confumption among the poor ; and the 
rich, when they ufe it for exportation, have a drawback of duties. 
On m.olafres the duties have never exceeded the low rate of ^cj 
cents per gallon, and as to fugar, it pays but a fair proportion a- 
mong other things of equal ufe and 7;^/ noneofihcfe things are the 
per opprcffcd a tenth part as much as they were by the internal 
taxes, nor a hundredth part ns much as they were by the federal 
' funding fyftem and the ftanding army and the vaft fchemes of 
Mr. Adanis' ndi7-iiniilration,by M'hich the poor would inevitably 
have been laid at the feet of the rich. 

We now come to that part of the addrefs where Impartialis 
vents out all his idolatry for Wafliington, by abufing the Con- 
llitution for admitting 3-5ths of the Haves in Virginia, to be 
ciiii^Tirter^ as inhabitants •; and "by abufmg the free citizens of 
W'^Inia for having habits and manners different from ours.-^ 

V This 



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This is really very federal ! This fubjeftof negro flavery was 
, well underftood by the Convention, and provided for, as well 
as they could do it. Slavery was formerly tolerated here : it 
required fome time to eradicate it. At the fouthward it may 
require many years ; the fentiment of the majority of the coun- 
try is, without diftinction of parties, oppofed to the flavery of 
the blacks. The time is haftening, when they will be free — 
then whether ont free black man fhall be equal to or\Qfrec white 
man j or whether 5 free black men fhall be equal to 3 white 
men ; or whether the free blacks Ihall be admitted to a vote, 
are points which Impartialis may adjufl at his leifure. For the 
prefent it is enough that Mr. Jefferfon did not create the article 
in the Conftitution, objected to, and that he cannot amend it. 
This fuggeftion about the blacks is never introduced at the 
porthward, except it be to prejudice the northern people again ft 
the fouthern, and againft the duration of the union, an object 
much at heart* with i\\q pretended difciples of Wafliington. 

The next charge of Impartialis is, that an attempt was made 
to extinguifli the claims of the United States on the debtor 
States- — which did not preyail ; but he fays, it will probably be 
adopted the next feffion. An attempt to deftroy the Loan- 
Offices, which did not fucceed, belongs to the fime head of 
complaint. We would recomm.end to Impartialis to refcrvc 
thefc charges of wickednefs, until after they Ihall be committed, 
as they may then furnifii nevs/" matter for an addrefs, to be iffued 
three days before an eleftion. 

Impartialis next complains that the net revenue from the 
poft-office has been diminiflied from 73,000 to 27,000 dollars. 
He ouQ;ht to have ftated that at the clofe of Mr. Adams' admin- 
iftration, 9000 miles of new poft roads were ellablifiied, and 
that under Mr. Jefferfon 1 1,060 more have been eftabliflied, no 
part of which expence devolved on the laft adminiftration, that 
thefe 20,000 miles of new poft roads, though expenfive, are 
vaftly profitable and accommodating to the people. And he 
might have added, that New-Hampfhire is a debtor State, on 
the poft-office eftabliftiment ; more money being expended for 
her convenience, than is collected from her poft-offices, with aa 
additional expenditure of far more than 46,000 dollars — Oh 
this fubject the adminiftration is able to ftand, without feder- 
al aid and in face of federal oppofition. 

JmpartiaJis, wifliing farther tg excite a jcaloufy againft the 

fouthern 



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foutliern States, reprefents that the hofpital money from feamea 
is moftly conecled 7iprtb of the Delaware, but expendedyor///y 
of it. lie ought to have added that the New-England feamen, 
who are, eoipioyed throughout the continent, receive fouth of 
New-England more hofpitai affiftance than ever paid for, in ad- 
dition to all, which the New-flampMre feamen receive in Bof- 
ton and eifewhere. The fund for this objed is inadequate, but 
it is all expended, and the northern feamen Ijave the greateft be.- 
nefits from it. 

This difciple ofWaJhingion next complains that millions of mo^ 
ney, drawn from the northern States, have been expended in de- 
fending the frontiers of the Souihetn and Wejlern States from the 
Indians, and in purchalijng lands of the tribes. The money was 
no more collecled at the northward tfean the fouthward — the 
the conftitution guaranteed to each State fuch defence ; it was 
more largely afforded under the laft than jjnder the prefent ad- 
miniftration : the lands purchafed have been principally for the 
United States and have been a productive fource of revenue. 

Thefe dreadful thrufts at the foutliern ftates could pot be 
clofed without a freih introduction of Louifiana, for the purchafc 
of which he fays that 15 millions muftbe drawn froiii the l^or- 
thern States, by duties on our commerce. By northern ftates he 
will naturally dr^ your attention to the New-England States, 
for the people o' e State of Nevy-York make no common caufe 
with northern 1 eralifts in coveting a diftinction frppi the 
ibuthern ftates : but the Treafury of the United States receives 
from the Collection ofnce in New- York more than it rec^ves 
from all New-England. Immence fums are paid from the omcdi 
in Philadelphia, Jialtimore and Charlefton. How then are thefe 
15 millions to come from the Northern States. As faft as the 
money ftiall fall dew, it will be pundually paid from the reven- 
ue of the nation. As to the alarm that Louiliana is fufceptible 
of divifion into feveral States and of thus dimiliiftiing the weight 
of New-England, this is alfo another attempt to excite jealoufy 
and to light the torch of difcord. 

Impartiaiis draws to a conclulion by exclaiming " Indeed the 
voice oi New- E?igla?id is not now heard in Congrefs.'* This h 
precifely as true as the reft of the addrefs. The voice of Rhode- 
illand is heard, for fhe is entirely republican in both houfes of 
Congrels. Th^ voice of two Vermont Senators is heard and the 
voice of half the delegation from that State. The voice of Var- 
num, Euftis, and their republican colleagues from Maffachufett? 



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IS hcairci in Congrefs, and if Impartlalis wifhes to have the voice 
of New-Ham pfliire heard, let him fend to the fenate MelTrs. Olcot 
and Pliimer, and to the houfer of reprefentatives Meffrs. Tenneyy 
Betion, Thompfon^ Ellis and Hough.' There in the nam.e of all of 
them let the Honorable Mr. Piumer, read the addrefs of Impar- 
tialis, and when he arrives at the 1 2th page, let him give great 
force to his voice and announcing himfelf and them as the difci- 
ples ofWapington, read audibly the following : 

♦♦ Virginian influence diicfts every meJifuie of government ; It has broken 
** down and dellroyed every man, who has been oppofed to it, whatever his po- 
" h'tics may have been j The Vice-Prefident was of their fiH, birt being a m?.n of 
*• talents, they codfiderid him as a dangerous rival to their favorite and therefore 
«' deftroyed his political influence. Every prominent charadler, that belongs to 
**the north they are fure to denounce. They fometimes, to conceal their views, 
" do indeed confent that an old man crippled with age and who can never rivaj 
** their favorite, may hold an ofHce in the north ; hence they have agreed that 
•' o/i/go\nernor ClintSn of New- York f^all be the next Vice Prefident. — Virginia 
*"' is a^mblt exempt frorti taxes, yet llie is uling the whole weight of her influ- 
" ence to increafe the duties on the commerce and navigation of the north." 

Read (uch things, O difciple of VVaihington, and your voice will be heard 
in Congrefs with contevipt a?id execration, and thefe are the only ju(t impreifions, 
v.'hich can be excited by men, who appear in Congrefs as the reprefentatives of 
the bafert mifreprefentations, ever circulated among a body of eledors. 

Proclaim in Wafiiington that the republican candidates for Congrefs in Nev/- 
Hampfhire, " were advocates of Virginia and approved of her fatal meafures, 
" as they formerly did thofe of the terrible republic of France.*' Thelfe things 
v/ili prove how much you love Religion and-Truth, and what a mortal foe you 
are to that " demorailizing fpirit, that is at war againft religion, morality and 
** good government." 

EleBors ^f Neiv Hampjhire, our ele(n:ion is recently part, and by reafon of 
federal intrigue, the voice of your State is not to be heard in Congrefs for two 
years after the 4th of March next. Men, appointed under exprefs terms of 
holtility againft Viiginia and the fouthern States ; againft the Prefident and 
adminiftration ; againft the Congrefs, of which tbey are to be a part, are chofen 
fo reprefent this State. The event of federal a<Jls is to be deplored, but no 
time is to be loft in retrieving the republican charadlcr which you had lately 
l^ainsd. 

On Monday^ the ^th of ■tk'vc?iibcr next. 
You are to be convened for the choice of feven eleflots of the Prefident" and 
Vice-Prefident of the United States for the next term of ftjur years. 
The Candidaites recommended to your notice as eledtors, are 

Hon. JOHN GODDARD, Esq. of Portsmouth. 
Hon. 0:VI BARTLET, Esq. of Kingston. 
JONATHAN STEELE, Esq. of Durham. 
ROBERT ALCOCK, Esq. of Deering. 
Hon. TIMOTHY WALKER, Efq. of Concord. 
Gen; GEORGE ALDRIDGE, of Webtmoreland. 
WILLIAM TARLTON, Esq. of Piermont. 



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Thefe are firm Republicans who feel no hoftility againft any of the fi-ler 
States, who are firmly attached to the Conftiiution and to the federal unioi:, 
and are incapable of wantonly deceiving you, for the momentary purpef^ of 
tarrying an elefllon. 

The Candidates, ynoft likely to gain their fafFrap;es, are 

THOMAS JEFFERSON, as President; 

GEORGE CLINTON, as Vice-President. 
The diftinguiflied rank, which thefe men have held in public life, through 
the whole of our Revolution to the prefent day, has made their char- , 
adlers well known to you. Both of them have repeatedly pafTed the ordeal of 
public opinion : both have been tried in the feven times heated furnace of the 
enemies of liberty, and they have come out untouched. Both are mature in 
years and experience, yet neither has arrived at a period, in which his capacity 
of fervicein political life has abated. 

- , Among all the meer men, who have been on earth you have aever known 
•^©ne, who has been fo cruelly flandered, and fo obftinately oppofed as h^.s been 
- Mr. JefFerfon — yet he has calmly difcharged the arduous duties of his ofTice 
vith a facred regard to the rights al^d interefts of the extended people, over 
whom he has prefidcd. The charafter, which he has maintained thrQ.<:igh life, 
teftlfies his refpedl for morality ; he has uniformly and abundantly contributed 
io the fupport of religion, and has always treated with reverence the name and 
characfter of that being, to whom all human potentates owe unlimited adoration. 
Under his adminiftration none of the evils, predicted by his enemies have 
arrived, but all the blefllngs, which civil fociety can yield, have been enjoyed. 
Without your aid he would be re-ele<5?ed by a great majority of votes ; but you 
owe it to yourfelves and to the republican caufe to be pundual in your attend- 
ance to give your votes (or /even EleSion. If you have loft a reprefentation in 
Congrefs, yet ftrive to be reprefented in the perfons of your Prefident and 
Vice-Prtfident. 

New falfehoods will be improved io circumvent ycu, and attempts will 
le made to caufe you tojiumble even at the eve of your Eledion. IVs 
have prefent ed before you undeniable t rut hi — If you follow by the light 
$f them, you will be guided in fafe paths, hut if you turn afide to thf 
right or the left to follow the idle tales of dlf appointed federalifm^ you 
-iaill ajfuredly Jiumble on the dark mountains. 




